It fit him back then.
But post Parallax retcon they will never make sense again.
It fit him back then.
But post Parallax retcon they will never make sense again.
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I guess it usually refers to a character that's not being balanced out well. Hal works best when he's neither too cocky, nor too serious. I didn't regularly follow the New-52 Superman book but I don't think he was that unlikable.
I think that's exactly right. It's a delicate thing, but works great when it's done well.
As for New 52 Superman being unlikable, you are correct and he definitely wasn't.
By certain writers, do you mean Johns? Because I think he got it right in the book that mattered, the GL solo. He didn't fail to convey it at all.
I don't know what was going on with him when he was writing JL, but the quality difference between that and GL, Aquaman and Shazam at the time were like night and day.
I absolutely hated them. They appeared overnight and seemed so out of place considering that Bruce Wayne and other peers showed no signs of aging. If anything I think it helped to make the character seem less interesting to the comics reading audience of the '90s and symbolic of a "your father's superhero" type.
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This is my take on them as well. DC had gone with making their heroes a bot older which allowed the Titans group to move up (Wally becoming the Flash). It's not unheard of for a mna in his late thirties to be having some grey.
The "they were grey because he was possessed by Parralax" was dumb.
It was really dumb that Hal and Ollie were the only one from his generation to get older like that
everyone else got to stay in their prime
Its no coincidence that Hal and Ollie got replaced by younger heroes that's usually the sign of a time to hang it up old man type story
They don't work for the comics version of the character, but I think Hal being older works better for mainstream adaptations since it lets him believably lean more into the whole Chuck Yeager shtick.
People go gray early. I started getting gray hair at 16. A friend of mine started going bald at 18.
Hal started going gray early. Not a big deal. Not a sign of being "too stressed" or being "old" or anything. He just went gray before 40.
Agreed. I thought it was a good look for him and it made him slightly more visually distinct from his Silver Age peers who, aside from costume and hair color (sometimes haircut, but not always), all looked the same.
It should never happen because I don't like Hal as a character, but if I ever got to write him I'd have him start going gray early (again) and worry that Parallax was creeping up on him again.
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I wonder whether, if Barry Allen had survived COIE, DC would have also portrayed him as middle-aged as they did Hal and Ollie during this period. Would it also cover fellow Silver/Bronze Agers such as Atom (Ray Palmer) and Elongated Man?
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